Bob Carter

Professor Robert (Bob) Carter, is so-called "climate change skeptic."

He is "a researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University" in Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald"Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community."

Climate Change Claims and Affiliations
Carter was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009), organized by the Heartland Institute, which is funded by the industries involved in producing greenhouse gases. Carter is also listed as a speaker for the Heartland Institute's June 2009 Third International Conference on Climate Change. In March 2007, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Carter asserted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had uncovered no evidence the warming of the planet was caused by human activity. He said the role of peer review in scientific literature was overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry was irrelevant to the validity of research. 'I don't think it is the point whether or not you are paid by the coal or petroleum industry,' said Professor Carter. 'I will address the evidence.'" Carter has also asserted that "atmospheric CO2 is not a primary forcing agent for temperature change," and claimed that "any cumulative human signal is so far undetectable at a global level and, if present, is buried deeply in the noise of natural variation".  Carter is a member of the right-wing think tank the Institute of Public Affairs,  and a founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation, a front group set up by the Institute of Public Affairs.

Other Select Quotes

 * "The basic physics is this. The more carbon dioxide you emit, the less the incremental warming for the extra carbon dioxide."
 * Since then (1998) it's been very gently cooling. No evidence at all that any of these canges have anything to do with human activity or influence. These are natural climatic changes.

Background
Carter is a geologist who writes in the field of geology. . Some of his work has involved what is known as "paleoclimatic research," including participation in the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 181 try to create a benchmark of the 4 million year-long, mid-latitude climate record. In 2005, Carter was appointed by the Australian Minister for Environment, Ian Campbell, as a judge for the Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global warming skeptics
 * Heartland Institute
 * International Conference on Climate Change (2009)
 * SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

External resources

 * Bob Carter's personal homepage
 * Climate, The Counter Consensus published by Stacey International.

External articles
Climate change sceptic Bob Carter continues to ply his trade http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/nov/30/climate-change-sceptic-bob-carter

Articles and Presentations by Carter

 * Bob Carter, "The Great Barrier Reef is doing just fine: a precautionary tale", On Line Opinion, March 12, 2002. (First published in the Courier-Mail on 27 November 2002.)
 * Bob Carter,"Modern 'global warming' may turn out to be just a lot of hot air", On Line Opinion, November 7, 2003. (First published in the Australian Financial Review on 3 November 2003.)
 * Bob Carter, "Cool rationality shatters greenhouse hype", On Line Opinion, August 4, 2005. (Originally published in the Australian Financial Review July 14, 2005).
 * Bob Carter, "Climate Change is Not About the Weather", Perspective, ABC Radio National, August 6, 2004.
 * Bob Carter, "Global Warming Hysteria and the Deadly Disease of Hansenism", Melbourne Rotary Club address, June 15, 2005.
 * Bob Carter, "All the signs of full-blown Mother Earthism", Sydney Morning Herald, September 29 2005.
 * Bob Carter, "There IS a problem with global warming - it stopped in 1998", Sunday Telegraph (UK), April 9 2006.
 * Bob Carter, "An inconvenient truth: climate change is indeed a moral issue", On Line Opinion, Sept. 20, 2006.
 * Bob Carter, "British report the last hurrah of warmaholics: The Stern warning could join Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth in the pantheon of big banana scares that proved to be unfounded", The Australian, November 3, 2006.
 * Bob Carter, "Flacks for alarmists", The Courier-Mail, September 6, 2007.
 * Bob Carter, "Facts debunk global warming alarmism", The Australian, January 20, 2009.
 * Bob Carter, "The Problem is NATURAL Climate Change, Stupid!", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 10, 2009. (Video)
 * Professor Robert Carter Climate: The Counter Consensus Published by Stacey International

Interviews with Carter

 * Michael Duffy, "Climate Change Response: Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville, answers your queries arising from our Climate Change show of Monday 4 April.", Counterpoint, ABC Radio National, April 11, 2005.
 * Robyn Williams, "Bob Carter", Science Show, ABC Radio National, September 1, 2005.
 * Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Anders Flodstrom, "Warming - Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability:" (click on Part 1 or Part 2''), KTH University, Stockholm, September 11-12, 2006.

Other articles

 * Google Search: "An embarrassment to Australian science".
 * Tim Lambert, et al, "Bob Carter", Deltoid. (This is an archive of various posts on Bob Carter's statements).
 * Bob Carter, A Rundown of the Skeptics & Deniers Logical Science.
 * Anna Saleh, "Glacial mud reveals earth's history", ABC News in Science (Australia), June 11, 2004.
 * Deborah Smith, "Climate of opinion", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), June 12, 2004.
 * Ian Frazer, "Cool response to a hot topic", Townsville Bulletin, July 7, 2004.
 * John Quiggin, Duffy And Carter on Counterpoint, April 18, 2005.
 * "Ice cores show warming 'natural'", The Australian, January 7, 2006.
 * Robyn Williams, "Fair weather friend?", New Matilda, May 24, 2006.
 * Wendy Frew, "Minchin denies climate change man-made", Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2007.